Right wants monitors for Swedish poll
"VKO insists Swedish elections should be supervised," headlines Jyllands-Posten. The Danish daily reports on the concern expressed by leaders of the three main right-wing Danish parties (collectively referred to as the VKO) following the Swedish TV4 television channel’s refusal to broadcast a campaign advert for the extreme-right Sweden Democrat party in the run-up to general elections slated for 19 September. TV4 refused to show the advert arguing that it contained an anti-immigrant "hate message" – a decision described as censorship by the VKO which now wants the probity of Swedish elections to be guaranteed by independent monitors. In the advert, an old lady with a walker queuing for a welfare payment is overtaken by group of veiled ladies pushing prams.
As Greece pimps its ancient monuments to bring in the tourists, lovers of cultural heritage are up in arms. But the country is only doing openly what the whole of Europe is: looting historic sites to drum up more ready cash.
Asserting national values is central to the political project of the Hungarian PM. Since the start of the year, fifteen paintings, specially commissioned for an exhibition in the Castle of Buda, have been putting this ambition on show.
The game has gone on for nearly two years: Athens pretends to comply with the demands of its creditors and partners, and they pretend to believe in Greece’s commitments. As the spectre of default comes nearer, however, the Greek bluff cannot go on much longer, writes an El Mundo editorialist.